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In 'Ottolenghi Comfort,' Yotam Ottolenghi takes an expansive view of comfort food
Published: 30/10/2024 -
Al Pacino's memoir 'Sonny Boy' is a story of adventure, starting in the South Bronx
Published: 29/10/2024 -
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha bears witness to war in 'Forest of Noise'
Published: 28/10/2024 -
Rebecca Yarros on literary tropes, writing through chronic illness and 'Fourth Wing'
Published: 26/10/2024 -
In new children's books from Trevor Noah and Travis Jonker, adventure is not far off
Published: 25/10/2024 -
A new biography portrays Queen Elizabeth II as the British public's emotional anchor
Published: 24/10/2024 -
'How Women Made Music' reexamines the history of music with women at its center
Published: 23/10/2024 -
With a new cookbook, TikTok creator Owen Han aims to perfect the art of the sandwich
Published: 22/10/2024 -
'The Indian Card' explores the question of Native identity in the United States
Published: 21/10/2024 -
Food meets family in new books from Ina Garten and Stephen Colbert
Published: 18/10/2024 -
'Twenty-Four Seconds from Now' is a love story for Black boys–and everyone else, too
Published: 17/10/2024 -
In 'In Praise of Mystery,' U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón looks to the stars
Published: 16/10/2024 -
Malcolm Gladwell revisits old ideas in a new book, 'Revenge of the Tipping Point'
Published: 15/10/2024 -
Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, on her novel 'The Vegetarian'
Published: 14/10/2024 -
American Library Association president Cindy Hohl on why book bans are hard to stop
Published: 11/10/2024 -
In Simone St. James' 'Murder Road,' a lakeside honeymoon turns into a murder mystery
Published: 10/10/2024 -
'Building Material' is the memoir of a Park Avenue doorman
Published: 09/10/2024 -
Jules Feiffer, 'The Phantom Tollbooth' illustrator, is out with a new graphic novel
Published: 08/10/2024 -
'How to Build a Fashion Icon' is stylist Law Roach's guide to image architecture
Published: 07/10/2024 -
'Hope for Cynics' and 'On Freedom' ask big-picture questions about how we live
Published: 04/10/2024
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